those flyers have many in this mechanicsville neighborhood feeling uneasy. some, violated. >> stephen: now, i can understand why flyers might upset people. but i think we can all agree, it's better than what they used to leave on people's lawns. [ laughter ] and again, this aggressive recruitment has nothing to do with racism. the fact that it's happening under a black president is simply a coincidence. it could just as easily have been a jewish president. [ laughter ] but sadly, there's a dark cloud hanging over those white hoods. because according to the southern poverty law center, in the last two years "the number of kkk chapters dropped from 221 to 152." and this comes at a time when hate groups overall are enjoying tremendous growth. [ laughter ] ain't that a kick in the robe? [ laughter ] so why is the kkk's brand suffering? well, apparently, even though they're totally not racist anymore, those sheets bear some kind of a stain. [ laughter ] according to the splc's mark potok, "the klan is having trouble with recruitment because they're more stigmatiz

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mary's county, mechanicsville all headed your way with temperatures in the low to mid- 30s. and andrews is hovering near freezing but we're at 34. it's 35 in annapolis. leesburg is freezing along with frederick and winchester. so this is where you really got to watch for some of the slick spots on the area roads. outside it is just a raw morning. as we look at our current conditions of 34 with the light rain showers feeling like 27 thanks to that north northeast wind at 8. but that wind is really going to howl once this storm moves north. takes the energy from the western system and deepens those winds tonight could be cranking to over 40 miles an hour and some gusts with some snow showers. here's the timetable. western maryland, we'll get toward noon and out west we're drying out. big storms cranking offshore which this thing is headed for new england. perhaps a shower or two this afternoon. and a few snow showers tonight before we clear out and the snow just pounds these areas overnight through early afternoon on saturday. 20, 3-inches of snow -- 30- inches of snow not out

of rain now coming up for colonial beach and dahlgren heading up to southern maryland over to mechanicsville and even into calvert and prince fred hick. watch out there. temperatures still at freezing at leesburg and winchester and gaithersburg. watch out for slick spots there from the snow and sleet. south just going to have wet roads. 35, light rain. feeling like 28 so a raw morning. and a big storm brewing with one piece of energy from the midwest. one coming up right from the mid-atlantic. this one is going to just bomb out too far north and east of us. but by the afternoon, it's pulling away from us. and it's started to just pulmoable the northeast and -- pummel the northeast and new england. 43 this afternoon. with the morning rain and the snow and the mix. showers this afternoon. windy tonight and saturday. yellow alert today and then we'll drop it. 39 tomorrow. sunday a better day. less wind milder. 46. and more wet weather moving in monday. it will be 54 and a chance of something wednesday but i think it's going to slide to our south. let's check in with monika samtani. big problems